New Places to Eat in NYC

I’m always on the lookout for great new places to eat. Since I’m planning to go to NY in less than a month, I decided to do some research on what are the new places I haven’t yet been to that I should. Here were my sources, for the nominees of where to spend my food bucks. At the end what my final choices were.

Grub Street & NYMag

Where to Eat 2014: This is one of my favorite features that comes out every year and I very much look forward to it. I think Adam Platt’s judgement is always top notch, and his review of the dining scene is interesting. There are numerous articles toread here, but the main highlights for me are always his takes on The 10 Best New Restaurants and the 5 best New Chefs. What made the cut for these in 2014:

Best New Chefs:

Photos from NYMag

Fredrik Berselius – Aska

Daniel Burns – Luksus

Richard Kuo- Pearl & Ash

Daisuke Nakazawa – Sushi Nakazawa

Bryce Shuman – Betony

10 Best New restaurants:

Alder

Aska

Betony

The Elm

Estela

Han Dynasty

Luksus

Marco’s

Pearl & Ash

Sushi Nakazawa

The Underground Gourmet’s Spring Restaurant Preview: Another source of great new restaurants, opening throughout Spring, one to bookmark. What looks good? Bar Bolonat sounds quite interesting as does Cafe El Presidente

Grub Street’s Restaurant Power Rankings: They come out every week and always a great source of what restaurants are buzzing. What’s at the top of the list this week:

Contra

Torrisi Italian Specialities/Parm/Carbone/ZZ’s Clam Bar

French Louie

Rôtisserie Georgette

Gato

What did I add to my potential list from here? Contra, ideas of wanting to go back to Torrisi, Mission Cantina, Estela, Betony, All’Onda

What gets added from this list: Of the Best NY Chef I haven’t been to Aska, Dirt Candy, Red Farm, Txikiti, 15 East or Brooklyn Fare so all these are in the running. As for Best New Restaurant, Betony and Estela look really interesting

The 50 Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings of 2014 : Sadly a lot of the ones that got me very exited here are not going to be opened by the time I’m in NY, but a wonderful list to keep handy. Definitly need to check out the Morimoto in Miami when it opens as well as Cosme and the new Alex Stuapk project! Another must is going to be ABC Home Grown & Brooklyn fare Manhattan (maybe I will finally be able to get a reservation)

The 38 Essential New York Restaurants, January ’14 This is quite a great list. Where have I been: Bathazar, Peasant, ABC Kitchen, Gramercy Tavern, Bar Boloud. Where do I want to go: Perla, Momofuku, Alder, The Spotted Pig, Hanjan, Betony, Red Rooster, Talde